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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

These are the amazing things you can do in Japan on Cat Day

BBC News 22 February 2016: Are you a cat person? If so, Japan is the place to be on 22 February because this is when Cat Day is celebrated.

Now
in its 30th year, Cat Day has lit up Japanese social media with endless
portraits of ...cats as well as cat-themed doughnuts, cat-shaped
biscuits, cat manga, cats staring soulfully out of windows, kittens
mewing expectantly and so on. On this day it is Japan's hugest trend on
social media.

What happens on Cat Day?

Known
as "Neko no Hi", it was chosen because the date's numerals, 2/22 (ni
ni ni), are pronounced fairly closely to the sound a cat makes in Japan
(nyan nyan nyan)...read on.